10 September 2021: Study - Thousands More Nursing Home Residents Died From Covid Than Acknowledged By CDC

Thousands More Nursing Home Residents Died From Covid Than Acknowledged By Government, Study Finds

This report indicates a study that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that at least 16,623 more COVID deaths took place nationwide among nursing home residents than are currently indicated in the CDC's official statistics. Here are the key details from the report:

The federal government’s tally of nursing home deaths from Covid-19 omits thousands who died before a clear policy for reporting the numbers was put in place last year, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study from a Harvard researcher and her team estimated the federal government’s count is missing 12% of cases and 14% of deaths that occurred among nursing home residents in 2020.

This amounts to 16,623 deaths that were omitted nationwide, suggesting more than 118,300 nursing home residents died from Covid-19 last year, or about 30% of all virus-linked deaths.

The discrepancy with the official tally is because the federal government did not require nursing homes to report cases and deaths from Covid-19 until the end of May, three months after the first reported outbreak at a nursing home in Washington.

The national numbers aren't surprising, because the timeline has previously documented the Cuomo administration's unusual level of interest in knowing what data the federal government would be collecting when it started systematically counting deaths of nursing home residents. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration exploited the knowledge it gained to maximum effect as it covered up the full extent of these deaths during the period the administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect.